In History 111 today we studied the Romans, and began with their founding myth of Romulus and Remus. The Capitoline Wolf is the most famous artistic representation of this story; I make certain to show my students the local version, on display in front of the Municipal Building in Rome, Georgia – a gift of no one less than Benito Mussolini in 1929. (They had to take it indoors during World War II, but it was back out in 2007, when I took the photo below.)

The inscription features a fine representation of a fasces, that symbol of republicanism (and now, regrettably, fascism):